[Mediawiki-api] query.php scheduled to die Monday, August 25

[Brion Vibber]

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Brion Vibber wrote:
> During development of the new API, the old query.php was left in place
> on Wikimedia's sites to provide backwards-compatibility for tools and
> user scripts using it.
> 
> However it's a bit of a burden to keep it around -- being nearly
> unmaintained it suffers from "bitrot":
[snip]
> I'm currently scheduling the Death of query.php for Monday, August 25 --
> a little less than 4 weeks from today.

...now done.

query.php is dead! Long live api.php!

> This gives interested parties a chance to either migrate their scripts
> to the current API ahead of time, or to start work on an adaptor to
> replace query.php -- transforming queries to send them to the new API
> and transforming the results back to a format compatible with the old one.

Guess nobody wanted an adaptor that badly. :)

- -- brion
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